Prices: $17 per day, $35 for the weekend. It was like the Foreigner-led Summer Strut, held two months earlier at the Big A, or one of Ontario's two California Jams (in '74 and '78) expanded to a long weekend and attracting 425,000 in all, despite sluggish pre-fest ticket sales. 3-5, played out like several stadium concerts crammed together. Pieced together by Bay Area legend Bill Graham, the talent amassed for the first one, Sept. Bill Graham - a legend in his own lifetime It also served as Ticketmaster's entree into the Southern California market. Sparing no expense, Wozniak aimed to bring together many of the top artists of the day, segregated by genre new wave, heavy metal, traditional rock, and enhanced by cutting-edge innovation, including one of the first uses of jumbo video screens at a concert. Wozniak, then 32 and on leave from the budding computer giant after a plane crash left him shaken and unable to form memories for half a year, spent 18 months and $13 million preparing what he dubbed 'the Super Bowl of rock.' He intended it as a unifying antidote to the just-ended Me Decade - a benevolent we-are-the-world uprising evident in the event's name and furthered via satellite links to the Soviet Union during each fest. Steve Wosniak at Us Festival 1983 with Stevie Nicks. The 'Us Festival' kicked off under scorching conditions on September 3, 1982. In 1982, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak hatched an ambitious and very expensive musical plan and committed a sizeable chunk of his sizeable fortune to a musical event, billed as the biggest thing since Woodstock, Wozniak staged a three-day concert in the mountains of San Bernardino County, in Southern California, that featured some of the day's biggest names in music.

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